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Photo Pages: Pitcorthie. - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Fife
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Submitted by Nick on Sunday, 14 December 2003 Page Views: 2748
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 Site Name: Pitcorthie. Country: Scotland County: Fife Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Dunfermline Nearest Village: Pitcorthie
Map Ref: NT11398633 Landranger Map Number: 65
Latitude: 56.061577N Longitude: 3.424623W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Also known as Easter Pitcorthie, Pitcorthie standing stone resides in the middle of a Dunfermline housing estate. It stands approx 1.5m in height and has an unsculptred and jagged appearance.
Although it is a pretty cool stone the presence of 100 living and bedroom windows does not induce a lengthy stay.
NMRS state that the stone appears to have been subjected to fire or heat. It has been subjected to graffiti. This unsculptured standing stone, on the crest of slightly rising ground, is 5'10" high; 3' from the ground, its girth is 11'10". It is of sandstone, main axis N-S, and appears to have been subjected to fire or heat.
When seen in 1959, this stone was as described but by 1972 it had been set in a pavement of granite setts as a "feature" in a green space in a housing estate. Rather a soul-less setting, this stone has little or no 'feel' to it these days, and it is hard to visulaise what it may have looked like in its original setting.
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 Pitcorthie. submitted by hamish
It's amazing that this stone survives in this position, I wonder if it gets many people just looking.
 Pitcorthie. submitted by hamish
Another aspect of the stone, there is surprisingly little graffiti on it. Lots of kids about.
 Pitcorthie. submitted by hamish
This Stone sits in the middle of a housing estate. I asked a lady where it was and she said "o' aye, the Stanes ower there" so people know about it.
 Pitcorthie. submitted by Nick
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